Image::Magick::Tiler

On IRC, someone asked about slicing in GIMP. Looking at the Perl modules, I found one by Ron Savage called Image::Magick::Tiler.

Took a screenshot of my desktop, ran the program below and the above image is a composite from the "slices"

#!/usr/bin/perl

        use Image::Magick::Tiler;

        Image::Magick::Tiler -> new
        (
                input_file  => 'desktop.png',
                geometry    => '3x4+0+0',
                output_dir  => '/home/owen/Perlscripts',
                output_type => 'jpg',
                return      => '1',
                write       => '1',
        ) -> tile();

I thought I would upload the twelve bits of the image and enclose each in a table, but the formatting was awful. Not really interested in psyching out why Google makes these things so damn hard.

Not sure I am into slicing images, but there is an easy way to do it. It rquires ImageMagick as the backend, so if you wanted to, just do it directly from ImageMagick.

Some Days Just Seem Slow

Click to Animate      Original
I had uploaded an animated gif to here, but it "didn't work". It appears Google converts gifs to png format, and presumeably this is in their documentation somewhere. So I place the gif elsewhere and just linked this png to it. (Just click on it)

The Ying Yang was produced from a Gimp script-fu script downloadable from the Gimp registry as Taijitu. Acknowledgments are:
Create a Yin-Yang diagram.
James Sambrook
9 October 2008
James Sambrook. King George, VA, USA

The gif was made with 12 frames of the master image, rotating progressively +30 degrees and saved with a 100 msec frame rate.

Notice the artifacts on the edge which don't appear on the original. I suspect that it is because of rounding errors in Gimp's rotation tool.

Some Terrible Places

Saw a tag line that went something like this;
A bus station is where busses stop,
A train station is where trains stop,
and on my desk, I have a work station!

Anyway, here is a bus station, taken without flash


It's the Belconnen bus station, taken about 10:00 pm. Rotten miserable out of the way places they are. There are two others like it in Canberra. On a winters night, it can be super miserable.

In my taxi driving days I had a few fares because they didn't want to walk the bus station walkway. Its not so bad in the day, but at night, it is a bit creepy. And there is no toilets!

The government is going to build a new one, integrate it with the shopping center. 'bout time I say!

Creative Recycling

Morris Minor fans might be aghast at the use this old vehicle has been put. Certainly an interesting sight on a recent bike ride.


Another recycling effort.
(a bit less ambitious)

Thong Ball

From Family

Natasha and Courtney in Training, it's all the rage. It's safe.

I vote for it to be in the next olympics